Long, curved, akimbo: Hope uncovered for bird beak deformity DAN JOLING Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Biologist Colleen Handel saw her first black-capped chickadee with the heartrending ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska --Biologist Colleen Handel saw her first black-capped chickadee with the heartrending disorder in 1998. The tiny birds showed up at birdfeeders in Alaska’s largest city with ...

Deformed beaks occur in resident and migratory birds. A study of black-capped chickadees in Alaska showed "significantly higher" concentrations of a pesticide breakdown product, heptachlor epoxide ...

Occasionally, groups of about a half dozen take flight. In the foreground, American avocets, shorebirds with long upturned bills and spindly legs, thrust their beaks into the water looking for dinner.

What's more, by marking both long-billed and short-billed birds with radio-frequency ID tags and then monitoring which animals visited automated bird feeders in the U.K., the authors found that ...

"Geneticist solves long-standing finch beak mystery." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 11 / 181119064118.htm (accessed June 2, 2025). Explore More ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Biologist Colleen Handel saw her first black-capped chickadee with the heartrending disorder in 1998. The tiny birds showed up at birdfeeders in Alaska's largest city ...